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I think 1800 will be your ceiling. You gotta change to black ASAP, without any delay. :) :)

Lol, that's true!!! :) :)

I am following this thread. I think it is all a matter of preferences. I don't take either side on this.

Prott seems to sell "national team version" of D05, T05 and MX-P. So maybe pro's do get better rubbers. I would not know for sure. Looking at Timo Boll's gluing video on YouTube, it looks like Timo cares more about the weight of the rubbers and would glue 10 sets at a time and use the right...

I have the opposite experience. My STN is tackier than my H3 provincial.

It is up to you. You can always play it unboosted and see how you like it. then take it off and boost it later if you really enjoy it. When you boost it, the sponge will expand so you will be able to put it back on the blade without much issues. In fact, you might need to cut some edges off as...

I agree that when you reboost, your sponge will expand so you might need to cut the extra edge off. Or sometimes I get lazy and I simply line the straight bottom of the rubber a bit further up into the paddle so the rubber does get a bit smaller (and I like lighter paddles anyway). I don't...

If you switch blade, it will change the way you feel. G888's tackiness is what H3 used to be, except H3 was faster. But nowadays, H3 commercial version is barely tacky. H3 provincial blue sponge still has somewhat tacky surface so it is good enough. Just go for the blue sponge H3 provincial...

Yinhe Max-Tense rubbers are definitely not anywhere close to any tensor rubber I have used. There is little to no catapult effect on these max-tense sponge. I think it is just a regular Chinese rubber with not too much tackiness. That's pretty much all marketing.

Be ready that hurricane has a low throw angle which I like. This only happened to me once. I put a Rakza Z on my forehand and played for two minutes and ripped that sheet off. Rakza Z just had such a high throw that I did not feel like keep trying it to mess up my stroke. I have never thrown a...

I agree with the other poster. Short pips, you can attack and keep the ball flat. Long pips, you rely on the wobbling effects and the spin reversal. Medium pips is like the worst of both world. Any pips that you add sponge to it, yes, the disturbing and wobbling effects become less. I think...

Agree. No need to go above provincial version.

I second Tony about Colestt. That's it. No other places in the US that can get the price under $50. Plus Aliexpress takes a long time delivering the goods, depending on the sellers. You should not have to deal with that right now.

Ok, I know the LA area well. If you are going to Westside TT club, I would recommend Wei Wang only. I know there is an assistant coach who came back from Japan and is very very popular. That's another coach to consider. I don't recommend other junior coaches there. One junior coach was...

I second that, same thing in North America. I use TT11 almost exclusively unless Dandoy has something on special I want and I just want to spend $100+ dollar to get free shipping. And even if Butterfly, I try not to buy from the regional exclusive agent either if I don't have to.

I second that. And just because someone is using Tenergy, it does not mean their shots are of higher quality. In fact many noobies just use Tenergy to get a fast shot in (but not spinny at all) and block those shots are not that difficult.

Water. Then once in a while if I think the top sheet has built up some oil, tiny tiny bit of dish detergent. I have not changed that method since I started playing with Friendship 729, Friendship tackspeed 2000, Globe 999, Juic 999 and now Hurricane 3 and Sanwei Target National. I personally...

Agree. You can use whatever rubber you want with it. Does the rubber pair well with your blade? Do you like to loop or do you like to smash. Chinese rubbers are better for looping but less for smashing. So if you are a smasher, maybe some sort of Tenergy or ESN rubber would be a better fit. If...

Rakza Z is slow....... Just go with D09c

I am the opposite of you. I tried AK-47 and Big Dipper and did not like them at all on the backhand side. I want something bouncy. So I went back to ESN rubbers.